Olivier Messiaen - 2024 ACF Fall

Question

Peter Sellars filled the stage with televisions in his 1992 Salzburg Festival staging of this composer’s opera Saint François d’Assise. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this French composer of Quartet for the End of Time.

ANSWER: Olivier Messiaen [or Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen]

[10e] Sellars’ staging of Saint François d’Assise features an angel wearing a gray business suit portrayed by Dawn Upshaw, a singer of this highest standard vocal range that makes up the S in an SATB choir.

ANSWER: soprano

[10h] Viewing Sellars’ staging of Saint François d’Assise inspired this Finnish composer who died in 2023 to compose L’amour de loin, which in 2016 became only the second opera by a woman to be staged at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.

ANSWER: Kaija Saariaho [or Kaija Anneli Saariaho or Kaija Laakkonen]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	8	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%

Data


Binghamton A	Cornell D	10	10	0	20
RIT B	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
U of Rochester A	Cornell E	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Syracuse	0	10	0	10
Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	CWRU A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan D (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	0	10	0	10
Miami C (DII)	Michigan State B	0	10	0	10
Michigan B (UG)	Ohio State A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Ohio State B (DII)	0	10	0	10
Miami B (UG)	West Virginia A (UG)	0	10	0	10
West Virginia B (UG)	Michigan A (UG)	0	10	0	10
UW Wrath	UBC A	10	10	10	30
Tennessee A	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Auburn A	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Auburn A	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Auburn A	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Auburn A	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Auburn A	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Auburn A	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Auburn A	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Auburn A	0	10	0	10
Southern	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Auburn C	Mississippi State A	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Tennessee B	Emory Oxford	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
James Madison A	Appalachian State A	0	10	0	10
William & Mary	Liberty A	0	10	0	10
Virginia	Tusculum	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	VCU	0	10	0	10
Claremont B	UCLA D	0	10	0	10
Claremont C	UCLA E	0	10	10	20
Claremont A	UCLA A	10	10	0	20
UCLA B	UCSD	10	10	0	20
UCLA C	USC	10	10	0	20
Penn B (DII)	Bard A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Columbia A (UG)	Fordham A	0	10	0	10
Maryland A (DII)	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Penn A (DII)	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A (UG)	Columbia J (DII)	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	WashU A	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame C	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Illinois D	0	10	0	10
WashU B	Indiana	0	10	0	10
Iowa A	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Illinois C	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Northwestern A	10	10	0	20
Iowa B	Purdue B	0	10	0	10